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Off the top of my head, I'm pretty proud of my 191,000 score on Doodle Jump, but what about you guys? One of our regular commenters FatShady is one of the best Trials HD players in Australia, and another commenter, Batguy, is one of the best players in every game ever made - but what about you guys? Have you ever done/achieved/created something in a game that you were particularly proud of? Let us know in the comments below.

191,000 in Doodle Jump? I have that game! Thanks for the new challenge :D

My recent favourite achievement is 100% completion of Super Meat Boy and getting into the top 200 on the leaderboard.

It's harder to say when you look back further into the past. I am pretty proud of beating Sonic 2 on the Mega Drive without losing a single life. I know that beating some of the few games I owned back in the day was REALLY tough (e.g. The Ninja for SMS, Double Dragon for Gameboy) - but I have no idea whether they are actually as difficult as I remember.

Oh, and beating Goldeneye on N64 in 00 Agent difficulty and then unlocking all the cheats! I remember that one of the levels or cheats (The one with Moonraker lasers?) was insanely difficult, and I only managed to beat it when I was I had chicken pox and was in some kind of crazy hyper-focused trance.

That was the one where the scientist you needed appeared in a different location each time, right? I seem to recall running to a certain spot over and over and if the correct guy wasn't there, restarting. Then stuffing up blowing up all the fuel tanks. Then having everything align perfectly but still getting killed by the guards.

I agree on the Goldeneye N64, I finished that game and unlocked 007 mode and all the cheats. Then Rare released codes that people could type in to Unlock all the cheats I was so pissed, I have never felt more ripped off in my life. Oh and finishing both Banjo games 100% haha nothing like a collector challenge. Ah the memories.

My best scores...hmmm.
Scoring a copy of Manhunt at Games Wizard before the Govt. hit it with a banstick.

Scoring GTA and Goldeneye 64 in Sydney after all copies were sold out in Newcastle. The 2 hour train ride home with those games, talk about anticipation. Almost as good as knowing you are getting laid for the first time.

For a very short time the UK version of the Official PS2 magazine came with a feature on it's DVD called "Pro-Dojo" it would feature gameplay videos of people doing ridiculously hard things in games. Usually things like speed runs or giant combos.

Anyway, one of the videos was of of the game WWF Smackdown: Just Bring it. The video had a guy playing the "slobberknocker" mode (where you just fight opponent after opponent for 10 mins)He had pinned 51 wrestlers in 10 mins. I thought to myself "I can do better than that" So after many failed attempts. I finally did it using Big Show. I had managed to pin 55 wrestlers in 10 mins.

On the Arcade game Bombjack back in about 1989 (making me 14 at the time), i played for what seemed like 2 or 3 hours, getting to level 150, having about 15 lives up my sleeve and had won 9 free games. As you may or maynot know, you could not continue with another 20c. The only reason i didn't go further was that i was simply tired of playing it. Did get quite a semi circle of onlookers.

My other is on another Arcade game Rygar.
Can proudly say i was easily the best in town at that game. Completing it and getting around 12 million points on the 1 credit. God i love that game.

Not feeling comfortable with that Rygar score, i had to chat on facebook to my highschool pinny parlour rival for a more accurate total.
The high score at the video shop in Beechworth VIC sat at about the 7 million mark. A lot less than 12 but still bloody hard to achieve.

Most of my proudest gaming moments were a while ago...
- 100% completion of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64)
- 100% completion of GTA: Vice City (PS2)
- catching 150 Pokémon in the original Red version...
... Had Mew, and not Ivysaur, so technically not 100% complete >_<

- Only thing recently that’s I’m proud of is finding my first pearlescent weapon after killing Crawmerax in borderlands for what had to be the 100th time.

Oh God dammit... Why did you have to remind me of Pearlescent weapons? Finding one of those has to be the biggest achievement of my gaming life, not because of how rewarding it was, but because of how painfully torturous it was. After farming Crawmerax and the vault glitch non-stop for weeks (or maybe it was months, it's all a big blur) I FINALLY found one with my Siren. I was overjoyed, until I realised it was a low damage single shot rifle, then I was annoyed. Then they announced they were raising the level cap, making all my endgame farming a huge waste, and I stopped playing and never looked back...

Hahaha... Yeah the drop rate was shocking, I couldn't belive it when I finally got one.
Unfortunatly, like you the stats where atrocious!
(Incidentally the weapon I found was (screenshot) http://tinyurl.com/5v36yex)

- Scoring 85,000 plus five world records in-game on a Track and Field machine at TAFE last year.
- Scoring 120 takedowns in Road Rage on Burnout Legends on PSP on January 1st 2010.
- Scoring 52 Takedowns on Burnout 3: Takedown on PS2.
- Finding the last 25 gems to open the Super Bonus Round on Spyro 3 on PS1, which annoyed my sister to no end, as she had been looking for them for days.
- Killing park patrons on Rollercoaster Tycoon by dropping them into water for the first time.
- Making my first track in Stunts.

Getting an 1000x combo on Tilt to Live and a high score I was very proud of, around 20 million. Not sure how that stacks up against the rest of the world but it sure was satisfying... until my iPhone decided to delete my scores.

I've been working on and off for 11 years now I guess on getting all the titles in Vagrant Story. The only two left are for using each weapon 5000 times and killing 5000 of each enemy. I've got a ways to go seeing as I've only recently picked up the game again after a couple years of inaction and only manage 15 mins in the morning train rides to work.

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